Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEven in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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